[cheebacheeba]

"Come down to Australia, we dont tip here, except i tip hot bar staff (girls)"

- Not entirely true. In my experience, the hot bar girls are the ones most prone to fucking up...I tip where I think tipping's necessary....I won't tip on EVERY drink I have at a bar, but there IS always a tip at least worth say 1 or 2 of what I'm having by the end of the night.
In restaurants, I just usually throw the change their way to the nerest 10 or 20, depending on the meal.
If you eat out, like at cafe, I'll usually only tip the waiter/ess if they're cool with ya, and don't fuck up superbly, but hey usually they don't, but yknow, usually only a fiver...which IS more than most people would do here.
Only places I don't really tip are those that it wouldn't go back to the staff...
Although, u do have a point, distorty, hardly anyone here DOES tip, we don't exactly have any kinda tipping structure so to speak, that may be that our waitstaff/barstaff and other "civil servants" are paid a little better by the hour over here?